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Whatever happened to LHC@home....apologies and thanks.
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Send message Joined: 19 Feb 08 Posts: 708 Credit: 4,336,250 RAC: 0 |
Last January the Arecibo Radio Telescope Observatory of the Cornell University hosted a meeting of scientists connected with the search of pulsars in the electromagnetic spectrum and the gravitational waves spectrum, They both rely on two BOINC Projects, SETI@home with its Astropulse program and Einstein@home. Both run on my PC, whose CPU is an Opteron 1210 running Linux at 1.8 GHz. Evidently the scientists have found a way to check the correctness of calculations done on a variety of CPUs and OS. I hope that CERN may find this encouraging and maybe give us volunteer crunchers some work to do. The quorum is 2 on both projects. SETI exploits also GPUs via CUDA and Einstein has promised us also a CUDA version, with an OpenCL version later, which should run also on ATI boards besides the nVidia boards used by CUDA. Tullio |
Send message Joined: 4 Oct 05 Posts: 32 Credit: 344,444 RAC: 0 |
Pardon me if I\'m shocked to see a sudden influx of project input... This is incredibly excellent! I hope that this can be sorted out, with some tweaking on CERN\'s end and some updates to the webpage and forum, and I think the project will pick up and have resolve some of the negative impressions some people have about this project. Click here to see My Detailed BOINC Stats |
Send message Joined: 4 Oct 05 Posts: 32 Credit: 344,444 RAC: 0 |
So, I assume that CERN/LHC will have a more active part in the administration of LHC@home itself? Click here to see My Detailed BOINC Stats |
Send message Joined: 14 Jul 05 Posts: 13 Credit: 424,554 RAC: 0 |
We wish you every success,Eric |
Send message Joined: 4 Dec 06 Posts: 33 Credit: 75,491 RAC: 0 |
Wow, I am floored by the influx for information. Thank you very very much for taking the time to educate us crunchers as to the inner workings of CERN and LHC@HOME. Are these great students you refer to Alex and Neasan? |
Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 545 Credit: 148,912 RAC: 0 |
I would also love to know how to print the BOINC documentation Sadly, the \"revolution\" has come and there is little thought for those of us that prefer paper because it rarely experiences a BSOD ... and that means that you are stuck printing page by page the on-line documentation sites. Just one side warning, the documentation rarely tracks the system as-built in that most of the people that work on BOINC know it so well (or think that they do) so the documentation for them is always an afterthought. Sadly, those that might be interested in doing documentation have been driven to the wilds due to a lack of political correctness ... And, I want to add my thanks to the information you provided. As one that would gladly add capacity to LHC as it is one of the projects that is nearest and dearest to my science interests, it is always nice to hear that there really is work going on in the mists ... :) |
Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 309 Credit: 715,258 RAC: 0 |
Eric, Great to have you on board! Please be aware that there are many, many volunteers who do not post at all and the ones that do post tend to be the vocal minority - but all hold very valid views. We are all a very enthusiastic crowd and this is one of the real science projects. I hope you can get BOINC into the mindset of the powers that be. Live long and BOINC. Paul. |
Send message Joined: 4 May 07 Posts: 250 Credit: 826,541 RAC: 0 |
Dear All, dont have much news 20 years. My, time sure does fly. I remember trying to get people at my former employer to come at look at the server we had set up in our group to handle project documentation. Nobody was interested. Now they can\\\'t seem to do anything that doesn\'t involve a browser. |
Send message Joined: 19 Feb 08 Posts: 708 Credit: 4,336,250 RAC: 0 |
Does anybody remember Gopher? That was before WWW! Tullio |
Send message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1172 Credit: 54,759,073 RAC: 14,259 |
Thank you bigmac Volunteer Mad Scientist For Life |
Send message Joined: 27 Sep 08 Posts: 847 Credit: 691,265,057 RAC: 104,432 |
Great to read this, I hope that you can get what you need in terms of help to do this project. It would be fantastic to see LHC up there with Seti and Rosetta. |
Send message Joined: 27 Sep 08 Posts: 847 Credit: 691,265,057 RAC: 104,432 |
Is there anything we can do from our side to help move things along? |
Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 309 Credit: 715,258 RAC: 0 |
Is there anything we can do from our side to help move things along? Eric, I'd think we'd all be prepared to live without any graphics if it meant we could crunch some real work sooner rather than later. Graphics is not a priority to most users. |
Send message Joined: 4 Dec 06 Posts: 33 Credit: 75,491 RAC: 0 |
I for one, second this notion. In spite of LHC notoriously great screen saver, it is still disabled on all my boxes and really should not hold up the release of new code. It\'s like not driving your Ferrari because the radio doesn\'t work. Who wants to listen to music when you can listen to the engine... |
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